The Orthodox newspaper Hamevaser received international attention in recent days after it cropped out the images of female leaders from a photo of the march held in Paris following the terror attacks there.

A Turkish cosmetics company recently ran a controversial online ad for its hair removal product, featuring none other than self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

"I have never eaten non-kosher food," Prime Minister Binyanin Netanyahu said in an interview recorded before Yom Kippur. He was hinting that while he has sat in restaurants that serve non-kosher food, he never ate the food himself.

In what is probably a case of false propaganda, Gaza terrorists claimed top football star Cristiano Ronaldo donated 1.2 million euros to Gaza. "He is a legend and we hope he will convert to Islam," the group said.

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered why an octopus's suckers stick to practically anything except its own body. Now this sticky discovery may lead to new breakthroughs in robot technology.

In their efforts to collect taxes due the government, workers of the Israel Tax Authority allow nothing to stand in their way - not even a pair of underwear, which is where they discovered a stash of undeclared diamonds earlier this week.

A Russian Jewish group is preparing to open a kosher nightclub in the center of Moscow. The new club is meant to expose Muscovites to "a slice of the Tel Aviv nightlife and thus allow Moscow Jews to immerse themselves in that scene."

References to personal religious affiliation are being removed from identification cards for the first time since the establishment of the Palestinian Authority. Nevertheless, the decision is not entirely removed from politics.